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103 karma · joined June 5, 2009

http://github.com/alexhenning Contact: elcron@gmail.com adhenning@wpi.edu
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elcron··on Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
I switched to contacts from glasses a few months ago, the first few weeks were by far the worst. You get used to it (or at least I did).
elcron··on How To Spend Your Money To Maximize Your Happiness
I'm allergic to cats and I'm normally fine as long as I take a benadryl (or similar medicine) when I arrive so discomfort is minimal, and they spend a lot more time with the cat than I do so having a cat seems fine.
elcron··on Developers Call BS On $2.4B iPhone App Store Number
Apple doesn't need to (although it would be nice) and the high speculations are probably helping them. ie. more people developing apps hoping to make money.
elcron··on Curiosity HN: Is there a study on patterns in "random" numbers people pick?
Lets see :) Here's a link to a survey, if it can be called that.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFNjTXkyZi1J...

Spread it to as many people as you can so that it's not biased by the hn crowd.

elcron··on HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
If it becomes that popular it can always be added as a built-in option in hn.
elcron··on Svgweb - Scalable Vector Graphics for Web Browsers using Flash
Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in about a 60K library. Your SVG content can be embedded directly into normal HTML 5 or through the OBJECT tag. If native SVG support is already present in the browser than that is used, though you can override this and have the SVG Web toolkit handle things instead. No downloads or plugins are necessary other than _Flash_ which is used for the actual rendering, so its very easy to use and incorporate into an existing web site. [emphasis mine]
elcron··on Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO
10 Yes,

20 COMEFROM 50

30 but when will they include comefrom.

40 COMEFROM 10

50 I always wanted goto,

60 COMEFROM 30

70 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

elcron··on Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
There are calculators for multiplication, once you know the basics you don't want to have to multiply arbitrarily large numbers by hand.
elcron··on Ask HN: edit history for HN comments?
You can resize it with a bookmarklet like: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/FormTextResizer/
elcron··on Java Hack: Double Brace Initialization
You can always copy and paste a question mark (?). I don't recommend coding that way, I once tried coding with the left quarter of the keyboard broken, not fun.
elcron··on Rate my E-commerce Store: HotdogNetwork.com
Clicky: http://hotdognetwork.com
elcron··on Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter: It Doesn’t Feel Safe
As a teenager the problem seems to be twitter doesn't solve a problem most teens are having (facebook status updates are good enough for them) and not enough people they care about are using it.
elcron··on How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck
Full sized imags: http://www.visualeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wh...
elcron··on German parliament passes Internet censorship bill
Then they'll just call it an emergency and pass it anyway.
elcron··on Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)
Doesn't work for me in chrome. Although, I'm running the alpha for linux so that might have something to do with it. Has anybody tried it with chrome on windows?
elcron··on Why you (probably) won’t be using Firefox a while from now
I've been running the chrome alpha on linux for a few days and haven't had any major problems. (Although it would be nice if it could import bookmarks.)
elcron··on Ask HN: How do you track time?
For linux ktimetracker which can automatically time a task only when it's in a certain desktop. Of course my main reason for using it was to keep myself from wasting too much time on hn and other websites. :)
elcron··on Ask HN: How do you store credentials to external services?
Encryption is probably irrelevant because the password for it will be in the code, although it will make it slightly harder if someone gains access to your server.
elcron··on Ask HN: How do you decide if you buy insurance on goods?
Just put the cost of insurance in a bank account for cheap common problems. Not only do you not have to pay the overhead, but the bank pays you interest. :) It should (but won't necessarily) average out.
elcron··on Looking for partners for my new startup
I'm in your target audience and at least at my school 1% seems high. (1 school is not much of a sample size though)
elcron··on Poll: Do you take the domain into account when deciding to click an HN link?
I usually read the comments first and only read the article if the comments are good. I look at domain when their are no comments and the title seems linkbaity.
elcron··on Ask HN: Should I take this course?
You don't need to take the course to take the AP test. I took the AB test this year after signing up late and only haven written two programs in java (one of those being hello world.) It was a fairly easy test. I would recommend taking the class if the class if you want to learn java, but just take the test and teach yourself if you just want to skip entry level cs in college and use the free time to teach yourself what you want.
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